Sovetskaya Ukraina battleship

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Soviet Navy Ensign

Sovetsky Soyuz class battleship layout.
Class Overview
Class type: Battleship
Class name: Sovetsky Soyuz
Preceded by: None (first Soviet battleship class to build)
Succeeded by: None
Ships of the line: Sovetsky Soyuz, [[Sovetskaya Ukraina Sovetskaya Ukraina]], Sovetskaya Rossiya, Sovetskaya Belorussiya (all not completed)
General Characteristics
(Sovetsky Soyuz as frozen in 1940)
Displacement: 59,150 tonnes standard
65,150 tonnes full load
Length: 269.4 m
Beam: 38.9 m
Draft: 10.4 m
Speed: 28 knots (51.8 km/h) nominal
29 knots (53.8 km/h) top
Complement: 66 officers, 1226 ratings
Range: 5,580 miles (10,000 km)
@ 14 knots (25.9 km/h)
Power: 201,000 hp (150 MW) nominal
231,000 hp (172 MW) top
6 triangle type boilers
Drive: 3 screws; 3*67,000 hp
Brown Boveri geared turbines
Fuel: N/A
Armor Belt: 375-420 mm,
Bulkheads: 230-365 mm,
Barbettes: 425 mm,
Turrets: 495 mm,
Decks: 100-150 mm
Armament:

Main guns: 3x3*406 mm/50
Secondary guns: 6x2*152 mm
AA guns: 12x100 mm;10x4*37 mm

Aircraft: 4 Beriev KOR-1 seaplanes;
1 catapult
Other equipment: N/A

The Sovetskaya Ukraina (Soviet Ukraine) was laid down in 1938 in Mykolaiv (Nikolaev) at the Black Sea. When German troops captured Nikolaev on August 18, 1941, the ship was completed up to the main deck. It was only slightly damaged by the retreating Soviet troops. As all of the ships plans were missing, it was not planned to continue the construction of the ship, instead some of the armor and secondary artillery was used for the fortification of Sevastopol. In 1943, the construction was continued with a low priority and when the Germans were forced out of Nikolaev in March of 1944, they destroyed the incomplete ship by explosives.

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